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• Increase your rate of visual perception.
• Play any note on the keyboard without looking at your hands, even jumping large distances.
• Look ahead.
• Keep from losing your place.
• Fake.
• Play contemporary classical music.
• Transpose notes (or chords) at sight. "Just practice and it will get better." This is the typical suggestion given intended to improve music-reading. For anyone who has been frustrated with this suggestion, this book is a gold mine of what to actually practice. It reduces the process of sight-reading into individual components. Through a series of progressive drills your mastery of each component is comfortably and scientifically paced. One set of drills specifically improves your ability to see and interpret the notation quickly. Another set of drills specifically improves your tactile sense of the keyboard so that you can find any note without looking. As you improve, the parts merge as one and your reading reaches the highest level! Since 1986, Super Sight-Reading Secrets has been the sight-reading solution for thousands of students, teachers and professional keyboardists. If you are a complete beginner, it will help you to establish proper reading habits. If you are already very advanced, it will help you to become even better!
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Summary: Don't buy!!
Review: Don't buy this book. The book simply teaches you some basic thoery.
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Summary: Don't buy!!
Review: I am embarrassed that I actually bought this book of 48 pages without first examining it. I found no "super sight-reading secrets." In fact, I found nothing about reading music that I had not already learned from grade school music classes. I did not find the following sort of advice especially useful: "Get a book of all major and minor scales. Begin practicing all 24 major and minor keys." "Play every note of the Bach Chorales hands alone, without looking, one octave displaced." I was able to follow much of Richman's text only because I recognized what he was trying to say. I found little clarity in his writing and I was annoyed by his many ungrammatical sentences. My advice is to buy an old standby such as "Learn to Read Music" by Howard Shanet.
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Summary: Examine Before You Buy!
Review: I am embarrassed that I actually bought this book of 48 pages without first examining it. I found no "super sight-reading secrets." In fact, I found nothing about reading music that I had not already learned from grade school music classes. I did not find the following sort of advice especially useful: "Get a book of all major and minor scales. Begin practicing all 24 major and minor keys." "Play every note of the Bach Chorales hands alone, without looking, one octave displaced." I was able to follow much of Richman's text only because I recognized what he was trying to say. I found little clarity in his writing and I was annoyed by his many ungrammatical sentences. My advice is to buy an old standby such as "Learn to Read Music" by Howard Shanet.
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Summary: Baby steps towards sight reading
Review: I bought a copy of this book and I really appreciate it. It gives me a small set of exercises which all have something like "Well, _that_ cannot be too difficult..ooops..it's less easy than I thought, but I am sure I can make it". Hence, it is much more fun to practice than with all the other drills I have seen, which seem to be designed to be absolutely not entertaining.
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Summary: Baby steps towards sight reading
Review: I bought a copy of this book and I really appreciate it. It gives me a small set of exercises which all have something like "Well, _that_ cannot be too difficult..ooops..it's less easy than I thought, but I am sure I can make it". Hence, it is much more fun to practice than with all the other drills I have seen, which seem to be designed to be absolutely not entertaining.
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Summary: Super Sightreading Secrets by Howard B. Richman
Review: I found this book to be long in title (and promises) and very short on delivery. There is so little information to guide the student and so many assumptions made by the author that a student would be better off approaching the piano using a seeing eye dog! If the piano student knew all the information that the author assumed the student to already know, believe me, he or she would not need to investigate or acquire this book.
I definitely do not recommend the serious piano student invest money or time with this one.
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Summary: A good and very useful little book
Review: I like this book. It is a simple and effective manual on how to improve - or even just start - sight reading music. It is simply written, and the exercises are effective. The books succeeds in conveying the message that sight reading is not really as hard as it seems at first, if you break it down a bit. Virtually everyone is bound to find some valuable advice & exercises in this book - perhaps with only the most fluent of sight readers excepted.
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Summary: Definitely helpful
Review: I play piano for a choir, and recently bought this book to improve my sight reading. The method here uses a simplified counting method which breaks the music down to its essence and gives me a lot more confidence in playing trickier pieces with syncopated rhythms etc. It certainly makes it possible to pick up the piece a lot more quickly, and does improve the speed and accuracy of my reading. It is a short book which I think is good, the drills are short and easy to run through, especially with practice. Some of the later references in the book are a little confusing, and the book could be better organized. This book does not have all the answers, which is why I do not give it the full 5 stars. It is good value for money. Most people should be able to improve their sight reading using this book. I also have the Steelman book which is more about the theory of sight reading, and does have some examples in different styles of music and rhythms to work on.
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Summary: this book helped me a TON
Review: I really wanted to learn more about sightreading..and this book was prefect! It goes from easy stuff, to really hard stuff! It even has drills that are very helpful! I just love to sightread and this book has gotten me really far! I recommend it highly.
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